RIBBENTROP BOASTS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 86, Issue 229, 29 September 1942, Page 5

RIBBENTROP BOASTS

RUSSIA NEAR EXHAUSTION “READY FOR MORE DIEPPES” London, Sept. 27. “We are confident of winning the battle for Stalingrad,” said von Ribbentrop in a speech on the second anniversary of the three-power pact. "When we take Stalingrad our most dangerous antagonist will suffer a blow from which he will never recover. We are ready for more Dieppes, and a second front attempt will no longer be able to check Russia's increasing paralysis.” Von Ribbentrop predicted greater efforts to prevent British and American supplies from reaching Russia. “Two-thirds of Russia’s supplies of grain and meat, the whole of its sugar and 60 per cent, of its coal have been seized,” he declared. "Russia has lost 90.000,000 inhabitants throughout territorial gains and her losses in dead, wounded and prisoners total abput 1 14,000,000. Russia is nearing exhaustion in manpower, food and raw materials. By our conquest of the Ukraine and the Kuban area, the food situation for the whole of Europe has been secured for the future, and all Europe is one armament factory working for us. Against 190,000,000 people in England and America, from which they draw skilled works—plus the remainder of the decimated Russian workers —the Axis have 450,000,000 at their disposal. “The future will show whether Churchill’s bomb warfare against the civilian population was a good or a bad idea Every single bomb, every home destroyed and every dead person makes the Germans more determined to make the British pay. The time will come when fe will deal finally with this ‘British aircraft-carrier off Europe.’ “The tripartite pact was concluded firstly as a warning to the United States.” Ribbentrop continued. “As Roosevelt and his Jewish war-monger-ing clique continues to drive the Americans against their will to war, it was necessary that they should know with whom they have to deal. The Axis in every respect is now masters of the situation. The Russian war has not exhausted the Axis; on the contrary, it has hardened them and made them secure everywhere. We shall continue striking against Russia until all danger threatening Europe from Bolshevism is abolished. In the Mediterranean and North Africa we shall give the British no rest; in Western Europe large armies stand ready to nip in the bud all landing attempts. Time is now definitely working for the tripartite Powers.”